Anyone else notice the spider population this year? We have whole trees around here that are covered in them. I've never seen so many spiders before....I know this is typically spider season, but their numbers are amazing. Do they go in cycle like tent caterpillars do? I was figuring since I have a strong aversion to spiders...a great halloween costume for me this year would be wrapping myself in white gauze and attaching a 5' fuzzy spider to my shoulders and call myself dinner.
ew....that just gave me chicken skin.
Spiders have been about normal here this year, but the scorpions have been out of control. 8-o
Here ya go Lisa! 
They've all migrated from my place. We have always been major spider heaven and any other indigenous inscect/bug imaginable crawly creepy with ocassionals, several new each year. Inaded and outside.
With
three years of extreme drought and first ever spraying for West Nile mosquitos, ground and air, last year and this year, several times, our "bug" population has dwindled to nearly none, even the fireants. Snakes, amphibians, and other reptiles, a rarity when only
three years ago many daily sightings.
Just kidding about migration. Most summers the various croaking frogs and crickets are almost deafening at night. This year has been eerily silent. Only a few young Trantula rescues in house, hardly any spiders, only
three scorpions whole year, when we normally see several a week.
This is first year I've bug bombed downstairs in 20 years and that was for mites and scabies. I can't help but think the other bugs kept the microscopic "bugs" in check.
We've never had a flea issue but even resistant seed tick population, from dogs running woods, is almost nill.
It's almost like city living.
One year we had major spider population all over. Trees were way more covered than Karen's pic for much of year. Absolutely no tent or caterpillar worm nests anywhere I this year.
Good Day Fine REO folk. Find and give some happy.
